Pennsylvania teen Camille Bomboy is recovering from a bear attack after a recent hunting trip with her father. The 18-year-old nearly lost an ear in the incident and sustained significant puncture wounds from the beast’s giant teeth.

While the vast majority of Americans would hear this story and send their thoughts and prayers to the injured girl, the absurd activists involved from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals decided to use the attack to further their extremist positions.

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PETA official Alicia Woempner represented the organization in a derisive, compassionless letter she sent to the young woman just days after she nearly died in the encounter.

She urged Bomboy to “take a few moments to reflect on this incident,” as though she were capable of anything else as she suffered through the associated pain. “This seems to be a good opportunity to put yourself in the place of the individuals you and the rest of your hunting party were trying to kill.”

Once again, these ideological lightweights imply that animals are equal – or even more important – than humans by bestowing upon them the anthropomorphized designation of “individual.”

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Woempner’s crass letter continued, urging the recovering patient to “consider the frightening and painful experiences that hunters set out to impose upon animals.”

It seems she would have no problem imagining such a scenario, considering she experienced such a frightening and painful ordeal just days earlier.

The PETA representative implored Bomboy to “abandon hunting and decide to live and let live,” ignoring the fact that, in this case, the bear was by all accounts the aggressor. Woempner urged the teen to “enjoy nature in only nonviolent ways.”

Of course, a full embrace of nonviolence would mean that Bomboy and her father would have been exploring the woods unarmed and, in the event of a bear attack, would be utterly helpless. The only reason she survived the ordeal was that her dad pulled out his rifle and brought the huge animal down.

Hunting has always been an important aspect of not only American culture but all of human history. Since God gave man dominion over the animals of the wild, we have developed weaponry that allows us to both responsibly gather animal resources and control exploding wildlife populations.

PETA, however, would apparently prefer that vicious wild animals gain leverage over humanity. Even if this organization holds such outrageous views, it is the pinnacle of insensitivity to express them in a letter to an injured teen.